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On Thursday, the USA unveiled its own set of economic sanctions targeting North Korea. However, the agency has said it has not detected any man-made sound waves and the initial view was that it was a natural tremor. On Friday, Donald Trump publicly branded the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "rocket man" and said American "really had no choice" but to confront the authoritarian regime.

In his speech on Tuesday, President Trump called out the North Korea regime for its continued development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. In an unprecedented personal statement , Kim said Trump would "pay dearly" for his speech, which he labelled "unprecedented rude nonsense". North Korea says firing its rockets at the US is now "inevitable" in response to US President Donald Trump calling Pyongyang's leader "rocket man".

About 100,000 people packed Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square in the late afternoon in a show of support for Kim's statement vowing to have Trump "pay dearly" for his recent United Nations speech. Earlier in the week, Mr Trump had addressed the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to "totally destroy" the North Korea if provoked. Yet the speech, which was approximately 500 words when translated to English, refers to Trump multiple times as a " dotard " - an arcane word for an ...

It's not the first time Kohli has angered the Aussies and there's clearly still no love lost between the two sides. Last time India played in Indore , Dhoni's unbeaten 92 gave India a fighting 22-run victory over South Africa. Australia are 2-0 down in the five-match series and need to win the next match to stay alive in the series. The duo capitalised on the exhausted fast bowlers and some sloppy fielding from the Australians.

In his speech Tuesday to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, he apparently has discovered the often dysfunctional body can be useful, if it adopts the reforms he is proposing and accepts an agenda that includes uniting to stop North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons and missiles to strike at U.S and other targets.

Seismic activity was detected Saturday near the site of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear site, but it is not known whether a nuclear test caused the development. He says the US keeps pressing Russian Federation and China to do more to squeeze Pyongyang economically. North Korea in past months has been stepping up the aggressiveness of its nuclear and missile tests.